Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av Roger Perman, Yue Ma, Michael Common, David Maddison, James Mcgilvray

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Now in its fourth edition, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, provides comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the major areas of natural resource and environmental economics.

All chapters have been fully updated in light of new developments and changes in the subject, and provide a balance of theory, applications and examples to give a rigorous grounding in the economic analysis of the resource and environmental issues that are increasingly prominent policy concerns.

This text is suitable for second and third year undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-07-28
Mått190 x 245 x 40 mm
Vikt1 430 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor744
Upplaga4
FörlagPearson Education
ISBN9780321417534

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Roger Perman is Senior Lecturer in Economics, Strathclyde University. His major research interests and publications are in the field of applied econometrics and environmental economics. Michael Common is Professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Strathclyde University. His major research interests are the development of ecological economics and policies for sustainability. Yue Ma is Associate Professor in Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Adjunct Professor of Lingnan College, Zhongshan University, China. His major research interests are international banking and finance, as well as environmental economics for developing countries. David Maddison is Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham The late James McGilvray was Professor of Economics at Strathclyde University. He made important contributions in the fields of input-output analysis, social accounting and economic statistics, and to the study of the economics of transition in Central and Eastern Europe.

1: An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics 2: The origins of the sustainability problem 3: Ethics, economics and the environment 4: Welfare economics and the environment 5 Pollution control: targets 6: Pollution control: instruments 7: Pollution policy with imperfect information 8 Economy-wide modelling 9: International environmental problems 10: Trade and the Environment 11: Cost-benefit analysis 12 Valuing the environment 13 Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty 14: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources 15: The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources 16: Stock pollution problems 17: Renewable resources 18: Forest resources 19: Accounting for the environment